From rebel to ruler

one hundred years of the Chinese Communist Party

From Rebel to Ruler is a landmark history of the Chinese Communist Party—its rise against incredible odds, its struggle to consolidate power and overcome self-inflicted disasters, and its ability to thrive long after the collapse of the Soviet Union and dissolution of other communist ...

Political rumors

why we accept misinformation and how to fight it

Rumors and the misinformation they spread play an important role in American politics-and a dangerous one with direct consequences, such as wrecking trust in government, promoting hostility toward truth-finding, and swaying public opinion on otherwise popular policies. One only has to look at the rate ...

How states think

the rationality of foreign policy

o understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international ...

Accidental conflict

America, China, and the clash of false narratives

In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. This conflict between the world's two most powerful nations wouldn't have happened, were it not for an unnecessary clash of ...

Japan rearmed

the politics of military power

Japan has one of Asia’s most technologically advanced militaries, yet it has struggled to use its hard power as an instrument of national policy. The horrors of World War II continue to haunt policymakers in Tokyo, but a fundamental shift in East Asian geopolitics ...

Cambio de régimen

hacia un futuro posliberal

El liberalismo clásico prometió derrocar a la vieja aristocracia, creando un orden en el que las personas pudieran decidir sus propio futuro. Hasta cierto punto lo hizo, pero también terminó con las tradiciones e instituciones comunes y creó una nueva clase dirigente explotadora. El libertarismo ...

The two faces of democracy

decentering agonism and deliberation

The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only philosophical questions about the core values of democratic life, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront current threats to democracy. Those who want to defend democracy against ...

National party organizations and party brands in American politics

the Democratic and Republican National Committees, 1912-2016

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American politics. In National Party Organizations and Party Brands ...

Nasty politics

the logic of insults, threats, and incitement

A novel explanation for why politicians insult, accuse, and threaten their opponents, even though voters say they don't like it. Why do politicians engage in nasty politics? Why do they use insult, accusations, intimidation, and in rare cases violence against their domestic political opponents ...

Why Congress

A bold defense of our nation's legislature and its ability to work through the country's deepest divisions, and a stark warning of what our political future holds if we allow Congress to decay. Like it or not, our country's future depends on ...

Disorder

hard times in the 21st Century

Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of ...

Negotiating peace

a guide to the practice, politics, and law of international mediation

This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a light touch he explores ...

SIPRI Yearbook 2023

armaments, disarmament and international security

The SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management ...

El imperialismo, fase superior del capitalismo

'El folleto que ofrezco al lector lo escribí en Zúrich durante la primavera de 1916. Dadas las condiciones en que tenía que trabajar allí, tropecé, obviamente, con cierta escasez de publicaciones francesas e inglesas y con una gran carestía de materiales rusos. Sin embargo, sí ...

Getting Russia right

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would ...

Mussolini también hizo cosas buenas

las idioteces que siguen circulando sobre el fascismo

Una mentira sobre el pasado es reconfortante, confirma sensaciones sobre las cuales –de otro modo- se sentiría vergüenza, y fija puntos de referencia tranquilizadores, sin importar si son verdaderos o falsos. Destruir una patraña de carácter histórico, entonces, tiene dos efectos: el primero es corregir ...

Conocer Lenin y su obra

Conocer Lenin y su obra fue publicada originalmente en 1977, en el seno de una colección (Conocer, editorial Dopesa) con ánimo divulgativo que pretendía acercar al público general autores y textos que habían sufrido los embates de la censura franquista. Lenin, obviamente, era uno de ...

Shattered nation

inequality and the geography of a failing state

Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the social ...

Carbon democracy

political power in the age of oil

With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new form of politics ...

The ends of resistance

making and unmaking democracy

Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to "resist." But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream ...